Last week, JetRockets open sourced their own library for adding typed attributes to Ruby objects with a new gem, called Attrio. Similar to Virtus or ActiveAttr, you define attributes, types, and various options on plain old Ruby objects, but in a fewer-dependency, less-polluting kind of way.

The 2013 Golden Gate Ruby Conference, or GoGaRuCo 2013, is scheduled and accepting talk proposals now through June 13. It’ll be at UCSF Mission Bay September 20 and 21st. So, if you’re looking for a reason to travel to San Francisco and talk Ruby, here’s a good chance.

Yehuda Katz posted a pair of articles last week about patterns for extending the web forward. His major point was that new APIs —specifically ones offered by browsers — should be offered in a low enough level that they can tied into using JavaScript.

Previous Episodes

An Intervention for ActiveRecord, Using Gems in RubyMtion, GemConfig, using Nested Attributes with BackBone, Lyricfy (sorry - Chris made me sing!), and a shoutout to Josh Kemp in this RubyLoco-Powered episode of Ruby5.

Today's episode covers a major release for minitest, some JSON standards work, a tutorial on tagging with ActiveRecord and Postgres (plus an arduino to trigger the spray paint can), a RubyMotion tutorial and a little thing called CoVim that will blow your mind.